Simple ways to increase GPU performance for FREE

What's up, guys? Jays, $0.02 here and today I'm bringing you a tutorial. Hopefully, that will help a lot of PC gaming newbies get a little more out of their hardware without having to spend any money. I have done a series. I liked this several years ago, but there are so many new people on the channel and so many new players in the PC space that I decided to make one that I think is good, even if you're not a beginner and could do it. to benefit from today's video, so today we are going to talk about how to get more FPS from your graphics card for

free

, the key word being, you already have to have a card, you don't have a card, so that's not

free

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I want to show you how you can squeeze in a little more percentage without using the scary method of overclocking and now the people I'm talking to. In this video I have many very experienced and advanced followers on this channel. I'm not actually talking to you, but you can check it out and follow along and maybe even give some additional tips and tricks in the comments below if they occur to you. of everything I've missed here, but what I'm doing is recreating a very common scenario where many people don't realize

simple

things that can improve their

performance

and things they are doing that can hurt their

performance

. and you're not even aware of it, so we have our test system here, it's 8700 K, 16 gigabytes of RAM, what that does is we don't have a bottleneck on the CPU, but we're tied to the GPU, that is different from the bottleneck, so we will also make a lot of references to cars here because I am a car buff and basically what we are doing is dynoing our graphics card and the dyno are the tests we choose to try to validate our results now in terms. of result validations, there are many different

ways

to do this, there is a 3D mark, you know, fire attack and time spy, and all that, you could use the real game, but the problem with the real game is that the results consistent consecutive are very difficult at something. that's not on a track, so synthetics are the best way to allow us to measure differences in performance when making changes, but at the end of the day your results will vary depending on the games you play, this card, the CPU you have .

So what we show you here in this video are things to think about and things to try, and then you can see if it worked for you or not. If any of that reasoning becomes clear, I'll go ahead and tell you. We are using Time Spy. I believe there is a free version you can download. We will only do graphics tests. We'll worry about what happens to our graphics core and then average fps, so we need to do that too. get a baseline, but before we do that, I'm going to talk about what we have open here, so we have a nice Chrome window open here with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine tabs, we have sites.

After each charge, you see PC Mag reload itself right there. Chrome is actually hardware accelerated. If you turn off hardware acceleration it works like shit, so we're running a bunch of tabs in there and I know we'll be using some GPU we have. I also have three game launchers running at the same time, none of them have any downloads at the moment, but the reason I mention this is because game launchers also have scrolling text, ads, game demos and things that we are a type of background game that can also use background processes and can also be hardware accelerated, which can also affect its performance, but I think a lot of people, because they play a lot of games, will leave those launchers on, sometimes downloads are in progress. running in the background can not only affect your ping in your games but also your CPU usage.

If you are playing a Steam game, it will pause Steam downloads but will not pause EA downloads. Will not pause Battlenet downloads. stop startup or epic downloads and then if they are going to install something that can definitely affect your performance and a lot of the launchers like to start with Windows, a lot of new people who are new to PC gaming, they may not have as much experience as Many of my followers who are power users like me, these are tips and tricks to try to improve your graphics card to get the most performance possible without leaving anything on the table.

Windows Defender is active - we found that it's actually a pretty big problem when it comes to performance impact, especially if you don't have a very fast CPU, so what we're doing here is creating a situation that I think is very indicative than the average user would have accessed on their desktop, so let's go ahead and run and get our baseline. This is our test bench test. This is our test from before. We don't know how much things have improved if we don't have a measure or a baseline to compare so we'll just do a custom run here with graphics tests 1 and 2 4 times and then we'll only care about the GPU score and then the average FPS shown below that score, so let's go ahead and see how our baseline does, here's our baseline: a graphics core from a 77090 graphics test, one is forty nine point seven nine fps and graphics test two is forty four point five six so that's our baseline with everything working so there's a few

simple

things that we're going to go ahead and do here before we listen there's some adjustments that We will do in the NVIDIA control panel, there are very similar settings to AMD, so if you are running AMD, you can follow them.

For that particular control panel to do very similar things, we'll start by closing all the launchers that we don't need, so bye bye origin, bye bye battlenet, bye bye Google Chrome and all your tabs, so what we'll do now is just run this test . again and then we'll see what happened to our score, so our score went from 77092 to 76 87, believe it or not, that's still considered margin of error, we're talking less than 1%, so what's that at least? What it means is that having the launchers open and then having those things tabs in Google at least didn't make a noticeable difference for us as far as our graphs are concerned, so what we're going to do now is close the defender defender. is one of those that we've seen a lot of times in the past that causes problems when doing our max benchmarking and stuff, which also means that's usually when we look at some CPU related stuff, so I don't know what's going to happen. pass. happens here.

I don't know if our score will actually change, but all I did was have the defender disable all real-time protection features, but another thing worth noting also is that the defender reboots after boot, so it's It will turn back on every time you reboot the system. I think you should leave it on, honestly. I mean, especially if performance isn't really affected right now, you can run a hard registry edit that will shut it down permanently until it's done. next update or will it turn back on just because they figured out Phil's tricks, that's what Phil likes to do, but depending on how much of a performance boost we see here, if any, will determine whether you should leave it on or not on everything is like that, as you can see, closing the fender didn't actually have any improvement on our score, that's fine because all we do is close some programs and as you can see, at least in this particular configuration, the CPU is certainly capable of managing programs. run as well as the FPS that is 2060 can send, it might be a different story if we were dealing with twenty year olds when it comes to having a CPU bottleneck, but that would be a video on how to alleviate CPU bottlenecks not so much. about how to speed up your graphics card, so what we're going to do now is right click on our desktop, we're going to go to the Nvidia control panel, the first thing we're going to adjust here is manage 3D. settings that are already highlighted and we'll scroll down to where it says power management mode, it will probably say optimal or adaptive depending on what graphics card you have and then we'll click on prefer maximum performance and the other thing we're going to do is go down about five points below that are going to filter the quality of the texture and we'll go from quality to high performance, which makes it look like you're going to get a blurrier image when you click on it.

There is no discernible difference whatsoever. with image quality somewhere between quality and high performance, so when we do our max overclocking tests and stuff when we try to get every point out of our score that we can, this actually ended up causing us several hundred points improvement with the level. of overclocking that we were achieving, so this is something that I feel like you should al

ways

have on your graphics card, but what you might notice is that you may have a little bit higher idle temperatures depending on your graphics card if you have a custom one. card with a lot of fans will be fine, but what it does is not be so stingy with the power limit and power consumption.

Now, by just changing those two settings, we'll go ahead and see what happens to our score. We went from seventy-six ninety to 78 54, which is a pretty significant score jump. You can see that we got a little bit of an improvement in FPS, actually around one FPS or one and a half fps and then a solid one in the graphics. Test: You'd be surprised what an FPS boost can do to a timed score spy, but not that, we're not done yet. Remember that what I mentioned about MSI Afterburner is a free software that you can download and it works with AMD. and NVIDIA alike and you can make some very simple adjustments to get much more performance.

Now this is what I'm talking about: no overclocking, we'll just do a quick and dirty overclock at the end for those brave enough to do it. move some sliders but MSI Afterburner I get this question frequently. All MSI Afterburner does is read with the maximum values ​​allowed through the graphics card's BIOS, so you can't damage your graphics card by trying to overclock using MSI Afterburner, the BIOS won't. will allow you to go further in terms of voltage and power limit and power consumption, then the card will allow it. Yes, it can go further than the core clock can be stable.

You can go further. The memory is stable. So what will happen is when you reboot your system. if you have that little button check right there that says windows start button if you have some stupid setting like plus 1000 in the kernel which i don't think you can do anyway but if you have it selected as soon as windows loads it If you can't access the desktop because it crashes before you get there, then all you have to do is force yourself to boot into safe mode, remove MSI Afterburner and then you can reboot the system and you'll be fine, so we'll do it right.

Now we're going to click on this little gear that's going to take us to our menu settings and then we're just going to go ahead and click on unlock voltage control, unlock voltage monitoringand force a constant voltage which will have no effect. Honestly about the amount of voltage being sent to our system but without unlocking voltage monitoring and stuff we can't even see if we are getting voltage caps and stuff now the way GPUs work including AMD , and you know, both Nvidia's have momentum. The algorithms have logic that says if the power limit, temperature and voltage are not at their maximum, then allow the frequency to

increase

until those maximums are met or the maximum frequency in the table is met, in this case It's always the frequency the frequency is the What's affected by any of those things that I just mentioned, so what we're going to do now is we're going to take our power limit.

Everything you've seen so far is with these stock settings, power limit at 100% of the temperature limit at 83 83. is where we would start to see the core clocks drop dramatically if we go above that and then this is the fan curve right there, so we're going to go ahead and take our power limit and move it all the way to the right and you'll notice that the temperature moves with Because they're linked, we'll touch anything else, just see what, along with something else, the fan curve, the fan curve is important if you're asking for more temperature and you're asking for more voltage, let the fans do their job it's like trying to add all kinds of power to an engine but not in the crew improving its cooling you're just asking for trouble so we can click on this fan tab, click on enable user defined and then this is one I already found that it idles at 50% and then ramps up pretty aggressively.

I can actually click on that box and hit delete. It's a very aggressive curve that will

increase

very quickly, but at 60 degrees we would be at about 75 percent. fan speed, so just by changing those three things, power limit, temperature limit and fan curve, let's see what effect that had on our score, so our new scores at eight thousand thirty seven we gained another FPS in both. I can't emphasize how difficult it is to gain one or two fps and these scores the most important thing we find with graphics cards today is the temperature, the lower the temperature the longer those higher clocks will stay, the first step downwards happens at about 25 degrees Celsius, which is a bit ridiculous, so that's where you'd end up and it's up to you to determine if the few fps you've gained are worth the effort.

Unfortunately, it's not much of an effort. You can save these things to msi afterburner and they could start every time you boot. Windows is running all the time, but since we were brave around here and we like to go for broke, we're going to move these sliders so that the central vault core voltage moves up to one hundred percent. I'm going to make it plus 100. in the core which now allows you to go up 100 megahertz. I've never had an Nvidia card that didn't do a hundred plus 100 and then for memory clock, believe it or not, it generally has a bigger impact on performance than core clock. so we're going to do more 500 on this particular card because I know the memory used on the Founders edition cards can handle it again.

Your mileage will vary, so plus 100 on core plus 500 on memory and a 400 point increase and an actual measurable increase in FPS because we were willing to move the center slider and memory on point. This is the one I have the most fun with and obviously this has the biggest improvement. Oh you couldn't move those sliders for overclocking stuff without moving the temperature limit and power limit, they all have to go together otherwise you're asking for more core but you're already limited anyway so you have than move them together, we'll still see single digit FPS improvements at 1440 with this particular card, but if you're like us and like to game, it's the same reason I tear up my cars' engines and look for more power and stuff oh it's completely unnecessary but it's fun so if you guys thought this video was helpful please like it and maybe share it with someone you think could benefit from this and that guy said at the beginning of this video if you're one of those power users who have very good tips and tricks that we maybe don't talk about here and who can bring tangible improvements to people's gaming experiences on their cards for free.

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